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Published 2006.
Aristotle's On the soul is one of the most important books in the history of philosophy. Its fundamental achievement is based on the ontological-ontical definition of the soul and its virtues, which embrace all ...
Published 2006.
Aristotle's On the soul is one of the most important books in the history of philosophy. Its fundamental achievement is based on the ontological-ontical definition of the soul and its virtues, which embrace all living beings, including the doctrine of the mind (nous), and whose further explication has been interpreted controversially since antiquity. With respect to the traditional schools of Alexandrism, Neoplatonism, Averroism and Thomism the present study studies the various philosophical and theological constellations of the 16th and 17th century, which were determined by the intracatholical as well as by the interdenominational controversies between the Catholics, Lutherans and Calvinists. From this point of view the works of Luther and Melanchthon, of the Renaissance-Aristotelians Portio, Toletus, Zabarella, and the Conimbricenses as well as the works of the Lutheran and Calvinistic Philosophers of the 17th century are interpreted, these last ones being taken into consideration here for the first time.
Then follow interpretations of some of the main philosophical concepts of Aristotle's De Anima in the 16th and 17th century, namely the Protestant Aristotelianism of Luther (1483-1546) and Melanchthon (1497-1560), the 'Second Scholastic' of the Jesuits Toletus (1532-1596) and Emmanul de Goes, the Natural Philosophy of Portio (1496-1554) and Zabarella (1533-1589) and at least the New Protestant Aristotelianism of Martini (1570-1649), Evenius (1585/9-1639), Scheibler (1589-1653), Leuschner (1589-1641) and Dannhauer (1603-1666) at the Lutheran Universities in Germany in the early 17th century.
